OLIG2 is a novel immunohistochemical marker associated with the presence of PAX3/7-FOXO1 translocation in rhabdomyosarco
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OLIG2 is a novel immunohistochemical marker associated with the presence of PAX3/7-FOXO1 translocation in rhabdomyosarcomas Magdalena Kaleta1*, Anna Wakulińska2, Agnieszka Karkucińska-Więckowska1, Bożenna Dembowska-Bagińska2, Wiesława Grajkowska1, Maciej Pronicki1 and Maria Łastowska1 Abstract Background: The most frequent histological types of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) in children are embryonal (ERMS) and alveolar (ARMS) tumours. The majority of ARMS are characterized by the presence of PAX3/7-FOXO1 gene fusion and have a worse prognosis than fusion gene-negative ARMS. However, identification of PAX3/7-FOXO1 fusion status is challenging when using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) material. Microarray analyses revealed that high expression of several genes is associated with PAX3/7-FOXO1 fusion status. Therefore, we investigated if immunohistochemical approach may detect surrogate marker genes as indicators of fusion gene-positive RMS. Methods: Forty five RMS patients were included in the analysis and immunohistochemistry was applied to FFPE tissues collected at diagnosis. Protein expression of OLIG2, a novel marker in RMS, was investigated using antibody EP112 (Cell Marque). In addition already known two markers were also analyzed: TFAP2B using rabbit anti-TFAP2β antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and ALK using anti-ALK antibody clone D5F3 #3633 (Cell Signalling). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was performed on FFPE sections with FOXO1/PAX3 and/or FOXO1/PAX7 probes (Dual Colour Single Fusion Probe, Zytovision). Results: Our analysis revealed that all three immunohistochemical markers are associated with the presence of PAX3/7-FOXO1 fusion: TFAP2B (p < 0.00001), OLIG2 (p = 0.0001) and ALK (p = 0.0007). Four ARMS had negative PAX3/7-FOXO1 status and none of them displayed positive reaction with the analysed markers. Positive reaction with OLIG2 (6 tumours) was always associated with the presence of PAX3/7-FOXO1 rearrangement. Two additional OLIG2 positive cases showed inconclusive FISH results, but were positive for TFAP2B and ALK, what suggests that these tumours expressed fusion positive signature. Conclusion: Our results indicate that TFAP2B, ALK and a novel marker OLIG2 may serve as surrogate markers for PAX3/7-FOXO1 status what is especially beneficial in cases where poor quality tumour tissue is not suitable for reliable genetic analyses or shows inconclusive result. Keywords: Rhabdomyosarcoma, OLIG2, ALK, TFAP2B, Immunohistochemistry
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of Pathology, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Av. Dzieci Polskich 20, 04-730 Warsaw, Poland Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original autho
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